Fremont County was home to the largest herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the lower 48 states — an estimated 2,500 ...

Blindfolded, sedated and dangling 100 feet above the ground in a net off a helicopter, dozens of bighorn sheep are less than ...

Wildlife officials have hauled 122,000 gallons of water to support the animals since December, but say relocation is necessary to ensure long-term survival amid worsening climate conditions.

Others in the Hills have been in worse shape, however. A herd in Custer State Park that once numbered about 200 shriveled to two dozen in the years after a devastating pneumonia d ...

A terrestrial biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife explains how the Rampart herd of bighorn sheep west of Colorado Springs came into existence, and it was all on accident. COLORADO SPRINGS ...

Wandering through the rolling foothills of the Wind River Range near Dubois, lives a bighorn sheep herd famous for both its abundance and scarcity. A herd that once helped reseed bighorn sheep ...

VALLEY OF FIRE STATE PARK, Nevada (KTNV) — Nevada is taking action to preserve its state animal, the Desert Bighorn Sheep, by relocating part of a herd based in Southern Nevada. The reason for ...

News5 had the unique opportunity of joining Colorado Parks and Wildlife to see firsthand the kind of work and process that goes behind creating a new bighorn sheep herd in Colorado. COLORADO ...

In January, Colorado Parks and Wildlife began an operation to capture 20 Rampart Bighorn Sheep to start a new herd. Every morning staff and volunteers have been spreading apple pulp and alfalfa to ...

The herd at Hemenway Park is not the only Bighorn sheep herd battling pneumonia in Nevada. Bennett says the only population free of the disease is in the Muddy Mountains.